India lofts a record 104 spacecraft on a single rocket

Ethicists have been working overtime to figure out how to handle CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing technique that could potentially prevent congenital diseases but could also be used for cosmetic enhancements and lead to permanent, heritable …

Scientists have uncovered the first evidence of live births in the group of animals that includes dinosaurs, crocodiles and birds.

A survey of planets outside the Earth’s solar system has found 60 new planets and 54 potential planets, according to results of a Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey.

Industrial pollution has reached even the most remote corners of Earth: the deepest part of the sea. Scientists have discovered “extraordinary levels” of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, in the Mariana and Kermadec trenches, two of the deepest ocean …

There’s a star about 370 light-years from here that’s pulsating in response to its unusually heavy planetary companion. It’s the first time that astronomers have seen this sort of interaction between a planet and its host star.

Ancient jars that served as tax payment centuries ago have provided scientists clues to the strength of Earth’s magnetic field.

A Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer says he was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Houston during President Trump’s travel ban and pressured into giving agents access to his NASA-issued phone.

A study in Nature Physics paints the most complete picture yet of the first six to ten hours of a supernova some 160 million light-years from Earth.

Sea ice hits record bows at both poles This image provided by NASA shows Arctic sea ice at it maximum, the lowest on record. The winter maximum level of Arctic sea ice shrank to the smallest on record, thanks to extraordinarily warm temperatures …

On the eve of a Senate hearing Wednesday to consider “modernization of the Endangered Species Act,” an environmental conservation group sued the Trump administration for halting implementation of federal protections for the first bumblebee in history …

Poor air quality causes nearly 1.1 million people to die prematurely in India each year, the study says. 02/14/2017 09:11 pm ET. 230.

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Climatic changes impact birds and mammals far more than is reported. A new study reveals that nearly 700 mammals and birds were adversely impacted by alterations in the climate, with the mountain gorilla being the worst affected.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – El Niño didn’t deliver pounding rain, but it gave California’s coastline a powerful beating during the winter of 2015/16.

A massive repository of data gathered over a period of two decades by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii has now been made public. More.

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson pops out of a cargo bag during a prank on the International Space Station on Feb. 13, 2017. Credit: Peggy Whitson/Twitter/NASA.

The delta inside Jezero Crater offers one of the best locations on Mars to look for the remains of ancient microbes, according to scientists.

More people in Scotland believe climate change is real than in England, according to a new survey. A poll by ComRes, commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), found 64 per cent of people thought global warming was happening …